Hi everyone,
Please enjoy this week’s 4-points!
1) Pursue Pain
Everything good comes from some kind of pain.
Muscle fatigue makes you healthy and strong. The pain of practice leads to mastery. Difficult conversations save relationships.
But if you avoid pain, you avoid improvement.
Avoid embarrassment, and you avoid success. Avoid risk, and you avoid reward. The crisis–the most painful moment–defines the hero.
Improvement is transformation. It brings the pain of loss of the comfortable previous self.
The goal of life is not comfort. Pursuing comfort is both pathetic and bad for you. Comfort makes you weak and unprepared. If you overprotect yourself from pain, then every little challenge will feel unbearably difficult.
Comfort is quicksand. The softer the chair, the harder it is to get out of it.
Therefore, the way to live is to steer towards the pain. Use it as your compass. Always take the harder option. Always push into discomfort. Choose pain in small doses to build your resistance to it.
- Author Derek Sivers
2) Organizational Culutre
The emotional glue of any culture - religion, nation or team - is its sense of identity and purpose. What we identify with are the things we recognize as important to ourselves - to our deepest values.. this kind of meaning has the emotional power to shape behaviour.
Source: Legacy
3) The Process of Knowing
First, you know it. Then, you understand it. Then, you can explain it. Then, you can feel it. Finally, you are it.
- Naval Ravikant
4) Quote of The Week
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Thank you for your time and attention.
Much love,
Kyle
Life is inevitability filled with numerous opponents - death, grief, shame, guilt to name a few. It is naive to assume life won't knock you down. Therefore life is much more like wrestling than dancing. However, a great wrestler is a great dancer. They match grit with grace. But to not embrace pain is to not embrace the inevitable.
ps. Hockey is essentially dancing on ice
I do see the advantage of forging one's way through the hard parts. On the other hand, I am finding that I keep going back to the benefit of dancing throughout one's lifetime. There is so little time given to dance that people are generally self conscious about some free dancing in public. Also, dancing could be a community activity, for the young and old together.
Think of the gigantic hockey arenas and Rock concert venues and people don't spend 5 minutes dancing there.
In Geriatric facilities you see only a few will get up and dance to music, yet it is of great benefit to keeping a youthful spirit and a happy spirit. When the music starts, will you be a stone at age 90, or will you rock rock rock rock n roll?
It's almost like dancing is verboten in our culture. In Western/Cowboy movies they feature square dances where isolated rural farmers and ranchers would get together for fun. A good example of that is in the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Superb, athletic dancing in that movie.